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PERFORATIVE

Definition: PERFORATIVE

PERFORATIVE

Adjective

1. Having power to perforate or pierce.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Perforative \Per"fo*ra*tive\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression perforatif.]. (Websters 1913)


Modern Translations: PERFORATIVE

Language Translations for "PERFORATIVE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Greek 

  

τρυπητικόσ, διατρητικόσ (gimlet). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

erforativepay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "PERFORATIVE"

Words rhyming with "PERFORATIVE" (pronounced 'Per"fo*ra*tive'): Abdicative, Abditive, Abirritative, Abjunctive, Abnegative, Abrogative, Absorptive, Abstractive, Accelerative, Accompletive, Accretive, Accumulative, Acervative, Acquisitive, Active, Adaptative, Additive, Adductive, Adjudicative, Administrative, Admirative, Admonitive, Adscriptive, Adumbrative, Affective, Affinitative, Affinitive, Afflictive, Afformative, Agglomerative, Agglutinative, Aggravative, Aggregative, Agitative, Alleviative, Alliterative, Altercative, Amalgamative, Amative, Ambulative, Ameliorative, Ampliative, Amplificative, Animative, Annihilative, Annotative, Annunciative, Anticipative, Aperitive, Appetitive. (additional references)

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Anagrams: PERFORATIVE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-i-o-p-r-r-t-v"

-2 letters: evaporite, operative, perforate, privateer, profiteer.

-3 letters: favorite, firetrap, forepart, overfear, overpert, overrate, overrife, overripe, overtire, perorate, portiere, priorate, privater, profiter.

-4 letters: airport, evertor, favorer, ferrate, ferrite, firepot, forever, foveate, operate, overapt, overate, overeat, overfar, overfat, overtip, partier, pearter, peatier, pervert, piefort, pierrot, praetor, preaver, prefire, preriot, private, prorate, reprove, riveter, rotifer, taperer, tearier.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-f-i-o-p-r-r-t-v"
 

+1 letter: performative.

 

+2 letters: performatives, proliferative.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: PERFORATIVE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 45 52 46 4F 52 41 54 49 56 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.--.    .    .-.    ..-.    ---    .-.    .-    -    ..    ...-    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01000101 01010010 01000110 01001111 01010010 01000001 01010100 01001001 01010110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#69 &#82 &#70 &#79 &#82 &#65 &#84 &#73 &#86 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0045 0052 0046 004F 0052 0041 0054 0049 0056 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5039524049523554435639

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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